Certain Quote by Roger Ebert

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't buy into the phrase 'comedy genius.' It's like football; you can have the talent, but 90 per cent is hard work, the…

— Josh Widdicombe

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

— Amber Valletta

Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would admit throwing…

— Jim Gaffigan

Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.

— Mort Sahl

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

— Robert Mankoff

You can't teach a person to be funny unless you teach him how to swipe someone else's material. To be a success he must…

— Soupy Sales

Vulgarity shouldn't pass off as humour.

— Radha Ravi

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

— Craig Ferguson